Final Arrangements Judith Schoolman This I Believe, 2013, and Yom Kippur 2014 I believe people should make arrangements for their “final rest” before they die and not leave everything…
Legacy of My Parents Shirley Ranz As some of you, who have been in The City Congregation for many years, know, both my parents are Holocaust survivors. My father…
The Possibility of Change Gladys Foxe, L.C.S.W.. L.P., Ph.D. (Originally delivered, in a longer version, as “How I got my politics”, for Shabbat May 2013) Thank you Peter, and…
LEGACY Alice Kaplan Many years ago, I was given a handout. It must have been at a workshop I was attending but now, my memory fails me and I…
Yom Kippur 2013 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer In 1896, my grandfather on my mother’s side emigrated to America from Vilna in Lithuania. He was 14-years old. Seven years later he…
Rosh Hashanah 2013 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer As I have done regularly to open our High Holidays services, I’d like to share a brief message that is intended to set…
Rosh Hashanah 2012 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer This past June I visited Germany and Poland with my son Oren. I will be making a presentation about the trip at one…
Yom Kippur 2012 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer When I was a teenager I was fortunate to go to Europe with my parents and my cousins. One day I took a…
Integrity Dahlia K. Remler Rosh Hashanah 2012 Early in graduate school, I made an appointment to meet a fellow student in our departmental library at its closing time,…